germanyboy

My Son-in-law who is 6 foot nine is worried about cruising on Disney. Can you tell one of the good things a very tall person could look forward to on the Disney cruise, and the bad things. And how to make the best of it.

I have also taken bags of miniature chocolates, pass them ...a couple or three...out walking around. Once the Eastern European guy wiping down the stair rails said, thank you. American chocolates. Nice.

I take small flashlights or flashlight pens, useful, tiny, they tell me they can get in and out of room without waking roommates with room light. And good old cash.

They sell at hardware stores...Lowes,

Home Depot

We fly Southwest two or three times a year. Wife and I have always had pre-check on our boarding passes because we are over 65 and in rewards plan.

And go to Granville Island, shops, restaurants, farmers market

Have a great hopon hopoff bus tour that goes up through the park and it ends up in the gas town area just south of the dock. steam clock on the street, fabulous restaurants stuff

Maybe they planned the whole thing. A few days without the kids. The uncle and other relatives were available to babysit

Maybe they planned it for 2 or 3 days without the kids. Thank goodness for uncle.

Go up to the highest deck at sunrise, kneel toward the bow, and say Owa Tagoo Siam five times, slowly at first, speeding up as you go. Now you are in.

I put the sign on my door once, had a lady call my room to complain about the movies that were showing in the movie theater, they were too loud, it was too much action and couple swear words. She said you're the cruise critic so I want you to write it in your review.. I did call her and explained what our site was.

Had a lady squeeze past me in the movie theater with a full tray of food and drinks for late lunch once. Didn't even offer to share.

I have an app called Noisli. You can choose from standard sounds or mix your own combos. Very effective for traveling. Mine is for IPad but should be able to find for android or Windows

We had a sail away party on the heli deck leaving one of the Hawaiian ports because we had a very active roll call

I found 12 year old cruise pics of my wife, scanned and sent them in, and wife got credit for a cruise

I took my two Starbucks cups and the day before we get on the ship I pick up a cardboard cup holder at Starbucks. then I have room to put the 2 cups and some snacks on the tray to take back to the room. Everyone I walk past says oh what a good idea.

Yeah but for us in New Mexico, people are always asking if we have a good exchange rate. And places won't ship things to us because we are an international destination.

Here are interesting history of the Fairstar ship and Sitmar Lines

http://ssmaritime.com/Sitmar-Cruises-other-ships.htm

http://www.ssmaritime.com/fair2.htm

The ship actually had 2 names HMTS Oxfordshire 1957 - 1962 /

TSS Fairstar 1964 – 1997

https://books.google.com/books?id=kTADAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&lr=#v=onepage&q=Fairstar&f=false

In the Cruise magazine I referred to

On page 59, center column, under Papeete, Princess cruises, it says Sea Princess 14 night Reverse of December 28 sailing from Sydney

That is all I can find. You just owe me a new set of eyeballs :eek:

Try looking at post 9 above

I got the $10 day plan while I was in Ireland in December it didn't work I had to get tech-support two times just to get one phone call made and then they refunded me for most of the days.

We get it all the time, assume it is because we are 65.

Arrive early am, empty by 10 am, next load up starts by 11 am

We had six couples who met up for dinner in Blu, that by the end of the cruise kept lining up for dinner together, and Staff just pushed the two top tables together and we had one long table for 12 people by the window

Celebrity section of forum, look at sticky at top

Just take one of those vinyl numbered strip thermometers with you and set somewhere in the room.